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* Determining Gender of an (american) Name [...] Still impressive but it would be interesting to see the result for other countries. Maybe for some countries,

* Determining Gender of an (american) Name [...] Still impressive but it would be interesting to see the result for other countries. Maybe for some countries, the gender could be harder or easier to guess. I can see how some people would use this to try to reconstruct a database where gender is missing.

carlob 11y ago
You can probably get to 80% accuracy in Italian just using the last letter. If it's A it's most likely a female, if it's O a man. Counterexamples among the 50 most common male names given in 2014 are: Andrea 2.46% Mattia 2.39% Luca 1.14% Elia 0.45% Counterexamples among the 50 most common female names given in 2014 are: None There are a handful of names ending with E or a consonant for both genders, which will have to be placed at random. Source (in Italian): http://www.istat.it/it/prodotti/contenuti-interattivi/calcolatori/nomi http://www.istat.it/it/prodotti/contenuti-interattivi/calcol...
- scotty79 11y ago
  > If it's A it's most likely a female Same in polish. If 'a' is last you get like 98% probability it's female name and if last is not 'a' then 98% it's a male name.
  - carlob 11y ago
    But Kuba is a male name :)
s_q_b 11y ago
Many names in Romance language preserve the ending of original declension from the Latin. The first declension feminine ending, the "base" name for a woman's name, is "a." Thus many Romance countries (and Christian countries, since many The Catholic Church requires the child to take the name of a saint for Baptism), have a disproportionate number of female names that end in "a." The "a" phenom signifying femininity is even suspected to go all the way back to Proto-Indo-European.